Excerpt: Blind

The reality of our situation had never really hit me before, but as I looked down at the body littered landscape it all began to sink in. The brutality of the weeks since the final portion of the wall had been erected had seemed like a fantasy, some kind of exaggeration stirred up by what was left of the sensationalist media and the new breed pundits. But here, face to face with the truth, I had to admit that things might really be as bad as they seemed. The casual chatter of my companions wasn’t making things any easier. They had the look of people who had seen all this before, and worse they didn’t seem fazed by it at all. Through all the noise, I caught the tail end of a dead baby joke.

What the fuck had I gotten myself into?